History Characters / GIJoeIDW

* BaldOfAwesome

* TheBigGuy

* BaldOfAwesome

* BaldOfEvil

* MissFanservice: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Compared to the classic Lady Jaye, she's less well-endowed and doesn't show cleavage often.

* ButNotTooForeign: His real name, "Armand Singh", suggest Sikh heritage, but he's not drawn darker than any of the other characters (and with his [[ManlyFaciailHair immaculately trimmed facial hair]], he's unlikely to be a practicing Sikh).

* ButNotTooForeign: His real name, "Armand Singh", suggest Sikh heritage, but he's not drawn darker than any of the other characters (and with his [[BadassMustache immaculately trimmed facial hair]], he's unlikely to be a practicing Sikh).

* BadassBeard

* BadassBeard

* TheBaroness
[[spoiler:DragonAscendant]]: [[spoiler:Becomes the new Commander of the reformed Cobra in issue 9 of Volume 5]]

* {{Sadist}}

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: [[spoiler:Due to turning out to be this continuity's version of [[WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}} Merklynn]], he is a {{Human Alien|s}} here rahter than a human being.]]

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: [[spoiler:Due to turning out to be this continuity's version of [[WesternAnimation/{[Visionaries}} Merklynn]], he is a {{Human Alien|s}} here rahter than a human being.]]

* BigGood: Through volume 3.

* RetiredBadass

* UnexplainedRecovery: Considering the Dire Wraiths' usual MO, [[spoiler:his survival is pretty unexpected.]]

* SmugSnake

* ActionSurvivor

[[ComicBook/GIJoeIDW A secretive U.S. military special forces team]], dedicated to operating against superterrorists like Cobra. Its members all gave up their previous lives and took on CodeNames as their only identity, and were believed dead by the rest of the world; after Cobra revealed their existence to the world, however, they brought in the original G.I. Joe to lead them as a publicly operating team. While they were mothballed after Cobra was defeated, they were eventually brought back [[ComicBook/Revolution2016 to deal with the threat of the Transformers]], and subsequently [[ComicBook/GIJoe2016 detached from the U.S. military to operate as an independent, international team]].

* TheFaceless/TheBlank: As he points out to Zartan, his VoluntaryShapeshifting can't threaten Cobra Commander, as he doesn't know what the Commander looks like to imitate him.

A former model famous for her beauty, Courtney Krieger joined the army after fighting off a band of RuthlessModernPirates during a gameshow gone wrong and finding that she had a talent for it. She was brought into the Joes on the advice of Richard Ruby, aka Bulletman, and later was selected to be a member of Duke's public team.

* {{Expy}}: Of the Marvel Comics version of Cobra Commander.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Something that was ''presumably'' meant to lead-in to him founding Cobra, but [[AbortedArc later reveals make this impossible]].
* PaterFamilicide

** ShotgunsAreJustBetter: ...but swaps it out for a [[FrickinLaserBeams laser shotgun]].

* FrickinLaserBeams: His specialty as a laser rifle trooper; it helps him to identify that the orbital laser beams are low-power and harmless during ''[[ComicBook/Revolution2016 Revolution]]''.

* FatGirl

* LethalChef: With [[SupremeChef Roadblock]] acting as Joe field leader in volume 5, Shipwreck takes over as head of catering... but only serves deeply unpleasant seaweed-based vegitarian food.

* TheBaroness: [[CaptainObvious Obviously]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Vanishes in the TimeSkip between volumes 3 and 4; all we see of him is a poster on a wall.

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: When Skywarp's teleport test malfunctions and sends shrapnel everywhere, Doc takes the bullet for Grand Slam, revealing his true heritage.]] Skywarp, predictably, feels nothing over this.

* [[spoiler:MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's a Dire Wraith.]]

* [[spoiler:HalfHumanHybrid: Half Dire Wraith.]]

* [[spoiler:TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: The possibility of being dissected to see if she's half-Wraith causes her Wraith heritage to flare up.]]

* [[spoiler:AdaptationalVillainy: If it means testing an anti-Cybertronian weapon, he has no problems with hiring super-villains.]]

* FantasticRacism: He's [[{{Understatement}} displeased]] at Cybertronians being on Earth.
* AscendedFanboy: He was inspired by Seargeant Savage and his Screaming Eagles

** ReluctantRetiree: He didn't want to be kicked out of the field to be a "desk jockey", and his replacement team being named after him is somewhat cold comfort.

* [[{{Sadist}} The Sadist]]

* [[BadassBiker Badass Bikers]]

* [[{{Sadist}} The Sadist]]

* [[{{Sadist}} The Sadist]]

Son of General Daniel "Sparkplug" Witwicky, Spike is an effective soldier, but one who's notorious for [[CowboyCop acting like he's the hero of an action movie]] without considering the consequences. Formerly an ally of the Autobots and member of Skywarp, he later betrayed them and spent the next few years on the run, but was eventually brought back in so that G.I. Joe could use his anti-Transformer expertise.

* [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil Slowly Slipping Into]] ChaoticEvil: Though evil from the start, he steadily becomes more chaotic and unstable as time goes on.

* HappinessInSlavery: Believes in this thoroughly, and thinks it's why he and his brother are so happy; they have to answer to each other. ([[RageAgainstTheMachine His brother disagrees.]])

* BritsWithBattleships: Used to be a member of the SAS.

A member of Sgt. Savage's platoon in WW2, a young Garrison Kreiger found himself inspired by an encounter with a mysterious robot. Over the decades since, Kreiger became driven in his pursuit of this mysterious technology, and the power it grants.